Ghosts of Manhattan

entertaining superhero steampunk fantasy

In 1926 Queen Victoria has just died but the Cold War between her kingdom and America remains heated. Violence in the big cities of the United States is rampant as the Twenties are Roaring with murders. In that wake the Ghost walks the city streets of Manhattan with a vengeance. He kills people employed by mobster Roman whose Italian-American gang is particularly known for their brutality and violence. The vigilante's calling card is an ancient Roman coin left on the eyes of those he murders.

Police detective Felix Donovan is well aware of the Roman mob and the vigilante who stalks them. Each in his belief are criminals. However, though he would prefer to bring Roman and the Ghost to justice, he makes little headway. Meanwhile as the Ghost closes in on Roman, the vigilante learns first hand his adversary is using paranormal connections and fears the end game is to bring a deadly God into the city.

Although comic book gory over the top of the Empire State Building, Ghosts of Manhattan is an entertaining superhero steampunk fantasy that will remind the audience of Darkman. The story line is fast-paced from the moment the Ghost stalks Roman's legion and never slows down until the climax with half of Manhattan at stake. Although the plot never quite decides between lampooning the two sub-genres and action thriller, readers will enjoy the High Noon over New York war between the vigilante and the mobster with eerie connections.

Harriet Klausner

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Pulp Steampunk

A good read, reminding one of 30's & 40's pulps, akin to The Shadow and the Spider, etc, but on the steampunk side. Plus the ending crossed over into the SciFi world of things. That's all I'll say there, so as not to give away the ending. Our hero has a more human touch in this though, but is associated with the 'upper-crust' of society. I eventually plan to read the sequel to this: Ghosts Of War. It seems as if George Mann is taking pulps, 40's detectives, and steampunk, and trying to combine them all in one. He does a decent job of it. 3 stars out of 5.

An awesome book

A great super hero novel

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